Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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Herbert, Vice-President Professor Herbert keeps the registrar ' s office, teaches political science, signs permits occasion- and finds time on Sunday mornings to make inspections, besides. He makes political science look like taking gumdrops away from children, and then shows the boys on final exam that things aren ' t always what they seem. Next to a good cigar he likes to see things looking right on inspections. He has been the friend and advisor of many students whose sons are here now, and without him this would hardly be A. M. Dr. Moody can cover more pages of physics per unit time than anybody we ever expect to see. He starts the hour off with a bang by a ten-minute quizz usually, and the mortality is high. Sometimes with most profs you can tell about what they are going to ask, but that doesn ' t apply here at all. The doctor likes football about as well as the next one, from all appearances. He intimates that ice boating is a decent sport, too — something you can break your neck at without half trying. Dr. Hand is as good a friend as you can find — here or anywhere else. He is never too busy to talk to you when you drop in, and he will do anything on this green earth for you if it ' s possible. He has made the chemistry department here equal to anything in the South. If he needs some special equipment that isn ' t being made, he doesn ' t worry any — just goes down in the lab and builds it. He may be absent-minded to the point of forgetting what he was lecturing about, but he doe i ' t forget friends, and that ' s what counts. We bet there ' s not another college anywhere around that sports as many deans that are keen fellows as A. M. Prof. Lipscomb is right in there, we say. Most deans can ' t see you with a telescope and a double pair of glasses unless you are in their school, but you don ' t have to be an Ag man to rate with him. He ' s ready for a bull session ' most any time, and incidentally, he ' s about as well up on all phases of Agriculture as anyone your liable to run across. Prof. Weddell and English are the same words. As a matter of fact, words are his hobby. The unabridged dictionary up in classroom looks like it had been through the Battle of Shiloh, so many fellows have had to use it. He picks them to pieces (the words), and examines each letter minutely. If you aren ' t careful you will use such correct words after taking his course that your roommates won ' t know what ' s happened to you. 22

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Professor Wallace, better known as Graveyard, has the correct idea that Freshmen don ' t know anything about math when they come out of high school, so lie starts them off right in Engineering by giving them something to worry about in the shape of Algebra and Trigonometry. He bears down on Factoring. He likes to see) you know something about functions of an angle, too. A lot of the boys go back to the hardware and grocery business after taking a few of his quizzes, so he is quite a help to the engineering- profession. Professor Gladney, otherwise known as King, heads the Civil Engineering department. If you know Strength you are all right. Otherwise, he would rather see you back at home with the folks. Don ' t ever intimate to him that all Civil Engineers do is survey ground. It might be dangerous, or worse. He goes over to the window occasionally and puts his foot 1 on the radiator. When that happens, sit tight and hold everything, because he is getting ready then to put up some bending moment equations about twenty-seven feet long. Professor Carroll, known here affectionately as Shorty, dispenses Chemistry in hourly doses. He knows Chemistry front, back, and sideways, as well as up and down. He likes Ionic Equilibria pretty well, and also the Atomic Theory, but he is long gone when he reaches the Periodic System. He lectures from the top of a high stool, so as to see everybody — making thirty or forty round trips over to the blackboard per hour, but when he reaches Mendelejeff ' s Law he gets so interested he forgets all about sitting down. Professor Cooper teaches English and likes it, mainly because he gets a lot of laughs out of the dumb things Freshmen say on themes. If all the themes he has waded through were laid margin to margin, nobody would know how far they would reach — but we make a guess at about Flagstaff, Arizona, or maybe Greybull, Wyoming. He likes chess about as well as anything, and he enjoys springing something new on Professor Towles, causing the latter to smoke up a whole can full of Prince Albert trying to figure out what his idea is. Professor Patterson, known by everybody as Prof. Pat, is the head of the Electrical Engineer- ing department. He has taught Electricity so long that he knows what students can understand, and what they can ' t, so he picks Alternating Current apart in little pieces and makes it so clear that you can ' t help knowing something about transformers, and synchronous motors and converters. He makes circle diagrams of Sink motors darn near talk, and that ' s not all. When Dr. Butts talks you can ' t help but listen. He knows Political Science, and he knows how to make it interesting. He walks in class just as the whistle blows and says ' . ' Where were we? Then he gets down to business and you get so interested you forget all about taking any notes. He says they had the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia because Benjamin Franklin, who was pretty old then, could reach up and get his hat when lunch time came and get home and back again without any trouble. It ' s little things like that that make his courses full of life and interest. 24 wmm